The Thriller is Centered on Illegal Online Gambling

Hollywood producers have been around the world of online gambling in the last few years with a couple of movies centered on this expanding new industry. Recently, Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake have agreed to star in a motion picture about illegal online casino gambling. This issue is very hot in many countries across the globe, especially in the United States where the online gambling movement is in full force this year.

The new thriller called “Runner, Runner” is directed by Brad Furman based on a script written by David Levien and Brian Koppelman, two writers familiar with the underground gambling scene after they written the script of 1998’s movie called “Rounders”. There are seven producers on the list for this motion picture and Leonardo DiCaprio is one of them. The two stars of this new online gambling movie have been busy over the past year. Justin Timberlake has starred in three important movies and Ben Affleck has written, directed and starred in the motion picture called Agro.

Online gambling has evolved a lot over the past decade. The online casino industry has become one of the largest industries in the whole world. Many countries have declared this activity illegal but nowadays most of these governments want to make changes in this direction. For example, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States have made important steps towards opening up their online gambling industries. In the United States, the Department of Justice stated that only online sports betting is illegal, overturning in this way a long-standing belief that all online gambling was illegal. This new opinion opened the doors for states like New Jersey and Nevada. Lawmakers from this two states started crafting new online gambling regulation laws for this year.

The motion picture “Runner, Runner” will focus on the inner-workings of illegal online gambling companies. These companies operated online casino sites which dominated the internet industry in the early start of the new millennium. Many of these international companies accepted bets from gamblers in countries where online gambling had been prohibited, and this movie wants to reproduce some events in this sector that happened in that period.